Senior Java Software Engineer - Vice President

Morgan Stanley • New York, NY

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About The Position

In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. This is a Senior Software Engineering position at the Vice President level, which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs. We're hiring a senior hands on engineer for the Morgan Stanley Equity Swaps technology team — the platform behind a market-leading, global front-office business. You'll be working hands-on inside a large-scale, real-time, event-driven system that processes significant volume every day, alongside a team actively modernizing the platform rather than just maintaining it. This isn't a role where seniority means stepping away from code. You'll be designing, architecting, and building core components yourself, while also shaping technical direction and mentoring less experienced engineers on the team. Expect real ownership: you'll be trusted to make architectural calls, not just implement someone else's spec.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience Java, server-side, concurrent/multi-threaded programming, with Spring Boot (Core Spring) and JUnit
• Solid understanding of message-based architectures (Kafka and/or IBM MQ)
• Strong RDBMS skills — Sybase and/or DB2 preferred — with proficiency writing complex SQL
• Unix/Linux scripting (Shell / Python)
• Sharp problem-solving and analytical ability, with a track record of owning full SDLC delivery
• Excellent written and verbal communication — you'll be expected to explain complex tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders
• Genuine interest in learning the business the platform supports, not just the tech

Nice To Haves

• Experience operating or tuning large-scale sharded MongoDB clusters
• Comfort with financial calculations and a willingness to get into the weeds of numerical correctness, not just code correctness
• Knowledge of the Equity Derivatives business
• Experience integrating AI-assisted development tools into a engineering workflow

Responsibilities

• Building and evolving a multi-threaded, Linux-based, real-time Java platform handling high-throughput event flows
• Driving analysis, design, and architecture for complex, cross-team initiatives
• Working with an interesting tech stack: RDBMS alongside technologies like MongoDB, Kafka, IBM MQ, Hazelcast, and Snowflake
• Getting deeply hands-on with our large sharded MongoDB cluster, with the expectation of growing into one of the team's go-to subject matter expert on its design, performance, and operational behaviour
• Becoming a technical expert on our core cashflow calculator — not just the code, but the underlying numbers, so you can reason confidently about whether outputs are actually correct, not just whether the system ran without error
• Strengthening our test automation and deployment practices — we're steadily maturing toward greater CI/CD and are looking for engineers who want to help drive that evolution, rather than someone joining a fully-automated pipeline
• Participating in L3 support for North America on a fair rotation — as a senior engineer, you'll be relied on to lead the hard incidents and ambiguous problems
• Actively using AI tooling (Claude, Amp, Deep Search, and others) to accelerate the SDLC — we want engineers who are evolving their own workflow with AI while keeping strong technical judgment and oversight over what ships

Benefits

• Ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work
• Attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry
• Support for employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed